A new Netflix documentary takes a deep dive into the primordial ooze to show how grainy "The Jerry Springer Show" highlights (or rather, lowlights) echo into the present day. Jerry Springer achieved fame and fortune in the 1990s by presiding over what became as much a three-ring circus as a daytime TV show, at one point surpassing reigning queen Oprah Winfrey in some ratings. While Oprah remains a cultural icon who needs no last name, I’d argue Springer casts a longer albeit tawdrier shadow